Don’t overshadow jubilee by plotting against PM, Patel tells MPs

Home secretary urges everyone to rally behind' celebrations, as letters of no confidence believed to near trigger point

Priti Patel has suggested Tory plotters against the prime minister risk overshadowing the Queen's jubilee celebration in the latest intervention from Boris Johnson's cabinet supporters to try to head off a confidence vote in the prime minister.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, the home secretary urged those pushing for Johnson to resign to forget it" and warned that writing letters against him was a sideshow".